Brånn, Daniel

Simulation of ridges in paper rolls : and analysis of the upcoming baggy webs (English)

Abstract [en]

A baggy paper web has parts that are longer than neighboring parts. One of the assumed reasons for bagginess is thickness variations of the paper. In the roll the thicker streaks then add up to form a ridge. In the ridges the paper is strained and during storage the strain may become permanent. When the paper unreeled it is then baggy. Runability problems because of baggy webs is a common problem in the paper industry. Baggy webs can result in corrugations appearing when the paper is passing through nips during converting processes. Ridges have been simulated in this project by reeling thin plastic film into selected parts in the roll. Plastic was reeled in near the core, in the middle of the roll and in the periphery of the roll. To see if the paper web had got length differences the web was divided into stripes and with a special device the length of each stripe was measured. Even other paper properties were tested to determine if the ridges had other influences on the paper. Two of this properties was thickness and grammage, which were determined to see if the paper had got higher density in the baggy parts. The measurements show that the plastic results in bagginess but also that after a couple of days, the paper more or less has recovered to the initial thickness and sometimes also to the initial length. The most bagginess appeared near the core and it resulted in relatively large length differences, but even here the paper has likely recovered to some extent.